Enterogastrone
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An enterogastrone is any hormone secreted by the mucosa of the duodenum in the lower gastrointestinal tract in response to dietary lipids that inhibit the caudal (or "forward, analward") motion of the contents of chyme.

Examples include:

• secretin^[1]
• cholecystokinin^[2]
• gastric inhibitory peptide^[3]

References

1. ^ You C, Chey W (1987). "Secretin is an enterogastrone in humans". Dig Dis Sci 32 (5): 466–71. doi:10.1007/BF01296028. PMID 2952476. 
2. ^ Lloyd K, Maxwell V, Chuang C, Wong H, Soll A, Walsh J (1994). "Somatostatin is released in response to cholecystokinin by activation of type A CCK receptors". Peptides 15 (2): 223–7. doi:10.1016/0196-9781(94)90006-X. PMID 7911992. 
3. ^ Gastric Inhibitory Peptide

External links

• Enterogastrone at eMedicine Dictionary
• MeSH enterogastrone

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